Weight Loss

Losing weight is probably the single greatest thing you can do to improve your overall health. Our medical weight loss program has been very successful in many people who are ready to make healthy changes.
Weight loss requires diet changes and exercise and we will help you make these changes. For those of you who need additional assistance with making successful change we will evaluate to see if you are a safe candidate for supplements or prescription medication to aid in […]

Pediatric Medicine

Our Family Health Center offers services for most medical needs. We can help you with chronic diseases such as: High blood pressure, diabetes, heart disease, high cholesterol, obesity, arthritis, emphysema/COPD and mental health concerns. We will work hard to get you an apt so you don’t have unnecessary visit to the emergency room to be treated for short term illness such as colds, flu, strep throat, earaches and urinary tract infections.

Services also include many in office procedures such as repair of lacerations, removal of moles/cysts/warts, hearing tests, IUD removal, sleep studies, EKGs and spirometry. Preventive medicine is a focus with well woman exams including pap smears, well child exams including all immunizations and adult preventive medicine including flu shots. Our doctors are medical experts at diagnosing and developing treatment plans that suit their patients.

We offer visits with a nutritionist/dietician to help our patients have the knowledge they need in managing their chronic conditions and working toward weight loss. These visits help teach patients proper food planning for reducing blood pressure or better management of diabetes or simple weight loss. Many insurances will pay for nutritional counseling.

Losing weight is probably the single greatest thing you can do to improve your overall health. Our medical weight loss program has been very successful in many people who are ready to make healthy changes.
Weight loss requires diet changes and exercise and we will help you make these changes. For those of you who need additional assistance with making successful change we will evaluate to see if you are a safe candidate for supplements or prescription medication to aid in [...]

We want to help you control your illness and prevent it from controlling you. We work with patients to develop a treatment plan that works with your busy life and schedule. We understand how difficult it can be to have a chronic disease and we want to help you live your best life despite your diagnosis. Through our commitment to provide individualized service, a comprehensive treatment plan is created for each patient that comes into the clinic. Our clinics offer [...]

At Our Family Health Center we want to make it as easy as possible to keep you well. There are many injuries and illness that do not require emergency room visits. However, patients end up in the ER because they do not have a doctor to take care of them. We work hard to keep our patients out of the emergency room unless medically necessary. If you have an injury or illness that can be treated out of a hospital [...]

The best way to treat illness is to prevent it entirely. We work with our patients to not only get them healthy but also to keep them healthy. We make sure our patients are following medical guidelines for prevention. Some important preventive medicine guidelines are listed below with websites detailing the medical evidence to support the recommendation. If you find you are not up to date on any of these recommendations come see us so we can help protect you [...]

At Our Family Health Center we enjoy offering patients as many services in our office as we are skilled at performing. We are happy to be able to do many in office procedures for your convenience. We frequently perform laceration repair/place stitches, mole and cyst removal, joint injections, EKGs, Spirometry for evaluation of breathing disorders and many more procedures. We also have a home Sleep Study machine allowing us to evaluate for sleep disorders from the comfort of your own [...]

We make every effort to respect your time and make your health care needs convenient. Our Family Health Center is proud to offer on-site Laboraroty services. Labs such as, cholesterol testing, Hemoglobin A1c, Hemoglobin, Blood Glucose Level, urinalysis and more can be done while you are present, with immediate results.
We also have full services of an on-site Quest lab with an experienced Phlebotomist at our Monroe clinic. We can send your blood work to any lab your insurance prefers upon [...]

As Family Medicine Providers, Dr Plaster, Amber Foster (FNP-BC), and Monica Sandford (FNP-C) are trained to take care of children of all ages. As an Internal Medicine Physician, Dr. Kirkland is trained to see patients ages 12 and older. We love our young patients and enjoy taking care of children for well child visits as well as illness. We know how important it is to see your little ones when they are sick and make same day appointments available. Some [...]

Our doctors spend a great deal of time caring for elderly patients. They understand how important polypharmacy (too many medicines), fall prevention, home safety, memory and many other issues are in the care of this age group. They are aware of medical recommendations that differ for older patients and keep this in mind when caring for the elderly. Our doctors are on staff at the Social Circle Nursing and Rehab Center, Park Place Nursing and Rehab, and see patients at [...]

Numerous patients benefit from working with our Clinical Massage Therapists. We hire certified massage therapist with special training in working with people with illness and injury. Our massage therapist is experienced and well educated. The therapist work with the doctors to assure you receive the best treatment plan possible. Most insurance companies will cover massage therapy when treating injury or illness. Clinical Massage can be helpful in the treatment of back pain, headaches, fibromyalgia, joint pain, temporomandibular joint disease (TMJ), whiplash, edema, [...]

You do not need to go to a separate doctor for your well woman visits or pap smears. All our physicians are trained in this area. As a female doctor, Dr. Plaster takes a special interest in women’s health issues. From puberty to menopause, females have unique issues that should be addressed with compassion and understanding.